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The carping critics who crawl out every time a government initiative on nutrition is proposed claim that what we eat is nobody's business but our own and the gummint should just back off.

 

That is not, however, the position taken by `100 retired generals and admirals. They see, from their perspective, a strong national interest in the gummint's promoting of sound nuitritional practices.

 

http://www.prnewswire.com/news...urity-103465584.html

 

From the article:

 

<<<<<"MISSION: READINESS released a report called "Too Fat to Fight" in April of this year, showing that an estimated 9 millions young adults, 27 percent of all Americans age 17 to 24, are too overweight to join the military. The group says improving nutrition in the nation's schools is a critical and necessary step to combating obesity among young adults.

 

"Our country is facing another serious health crisis. Obesity rates threaten the overall health of America and the future strength of our military," Admiral Barnett said. "We must act now, as we did after World War II.  We cannot afford to raise another generation of young adults where one in four is too overweight to serve their country.">>>>>

 

No federal gummint interest in nutrition?  Think again.  These 100 generals and admirals find plenty of justification for it, as a national security interest!

 

I'll wager they even approve of Michelle Obama's efforts to reform childrens' eating habits

I yam what I yam and that's all I yam--but it is enough!

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Our kids need more exercise, that's for certain.  As for Wide Load Michelle, I'll listen to her when she learns to curb her appetite and lose a few dozen pounds. 

Paula Deen, the butter queen relates:

"Well, I did a show with Michelle and I just loved being with her," Deen told Yeas & Nays. "She probably ate more than any other guest I've ever had on the show —she kept eating even during commercials." Deen taught Obama how to fry shrimp during a TV segment in September before the 2008 presidential election. "You know what their favorite foods are — it's hot wings, you know, those kinds of foods that are not necessarily top-of-the-list healthy foods, so she's no different than the rest of us," Deen said. "We love those kinds of foods, we just know that we can't eat them everyday."

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/...od-too#ixzz1aV6SVdBM

Originally Posted by interventor1212:

Our kids need more exercise, that's for certain.  As for Wide Load Michelle, I'll listen to her when she learns to curb her appetite and lose a few dozen pounds. 

Paula Deen, the butter queen relates:

"Well, I did a show with Michelle and I just loved being with her," Deen told Yeas & Nays. "She probably ate more than any other guest I've ever had on the show —she kept eating even during commercials." Deen taught Obama how to fry shrimp during a TV segment in September before the 2008 presidential election. "You know what their favorite foods are — it's hot wings, you know, those kinds of foods that are not necessarily top-of-the-list healthy foods, so she's no different than the rest of us," Deen said. "We love those kinds of foods, we just know that we can't eat them everyday."

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/...od-too#ixzz1aV6SVdBM

You Obama haters truly have no sense of decency. Does your Mama know that you talk this way?

Let Michelle Throw the First French Fry

 

"Michelle’s Bad Eating Habits Scientifically Chronicled

by Keith Koffler on <abbr class="published" title="2011-10-11">October 11, 2011, 10:33 am</abbr>

 

Does Michelle really over-satiate herself on adipose-inducing feasts while lecturing kids to clean up their diets?

 

Yes, according to the most scientific study to date.

 

Obviously intending to counter Michelle’s critics, food writer Marian Burros, working for POLITICO, treated herself to lunch and/or dinner at “the 33 or more restaurants in the Washington area” where Michelle has grazed in Washington since her husband took office.

 

Can you imagine? Such diligence and sacrifice.

 

The result is a classic unintended scientific finding. Burros appears to have set out to prove that Mrs. Obama eats like an undernourished wild rabbit, citing the “vitriol” poured on her concerning her food habits by “anti-Obama blogs.”

 

In fact, Burros finds – though she doesn’t acknowledge it – that the excess weight Michelle is usually carrying around was not put there by a mysterious and unwelcome Act of God.

She eats poorly.

 

Burros discovers and celebrates that Michelle does eat vegetables. But that’s like saying a murderer sometimes commits burglaries. The problem is with Michelle’s core diet, much of which seems to be fried, sitting on a bone, or infested with sucrose.

 

Here at White House Dossier, we have a little fun with Michelle’s marked proclivity to overeat and overeat and serve unhealthy food to guests again and again, while pointing out the hypocrisy of her simultaneously telling others how to eat.

 

Not since Richard Simmons’s paunch protruded over his skimpy shorts has a worse Apostle of the path to health presented themselves to the public.

 

Let’s take a quote from a paragraph in the Burros piece in which the author says Michelle “is a careful eater, practicing what she preaches.” She then notes:

 

More at:

http://www.whitehousedossier.c...ifically-chronicled/

 

Seeweed.

 

Toking again -- the bad stuff!  That would be Truman.

 

President Harry S. Truman began the national school lunch program in 1946 as a measure of national security. He did so after reading a study that revealed many young men had been rejected from the World War II draft due to medical conditions caused by childhood malnutrition. Since that time more than 180 million lunches have been served to American children who attend either a public school or a non-profit private school.

 

http://www.educationbug.org/a/...l-lunch-program.html

Do christie and limbaugh run around telling everyone else how to eat? Couple of points-they're not my "heros", and hasn't limbaugh lost all his weight? No, if she was a drug addict she'd most certainly be your queen. Remember marion barry? Anywho, I agree with interventor, let michelle lose her excess fat, let barry stop sucking on those cancer sticks, then maybe they can "suggest" what other people do.

Originally Posted by Mr.Dittohead:

This seems contradictory.

The Repubes worship giant fat blobs like Limbaugh and Christie.  Maybe is Michelle was a drug addict they would get on board with her message.

 


I take someone that eats a few too many chicken wings over a guy THAT ABUSED OXY UNTIL HE LOST HIS HEARING!!!! 

The indication of damage to the central nervous system is irrefutable, but fee free to refudiate.  

Once and addict, always an addict.

 

Seems you are the one contradictory. Do you like fat people or just democratic leaning fat people?  How about Obama doing cocaine? Doesn't that make him an addict? Guilty for life?

Originally Posted by b50m:
Originally Posted by Mr.Dittohead:

This seems contradictory.

The Repubes worship giant fat blobs like Limbaugh and Christie.  Maybe is Michelle was a drug addict they would get on board with her message.

 


I take someone that eats a few too many chicken wings over a guy THAT ABUSED OXY UNTIL HE LOST HIS HEARING!!!! 

The indication of damage to the central nervous system is irrefutable, but fee free to refudiate.  

Once and addict, always an addict.

 

Seems you are the one contradictory. Do you like fat people or just democratic leaning fat people?  How about Obama doing cocaine? Doesn't that make him an addict? Guilty for life?



Look up the word addict.

Use the Google.

 

The parallels of the Repubes fascination with Michelles weight and the comment from Scott Brown about his opponents physical appearance just reinforce the stereotyp[ical notion of the simple mined Repube making their decisions on voting for the most superficial of reasons. 

At least they're consistent. 

 

I generally prefer drug addicts to be skinny and toothless.

Like Coulter.

You're are right jimi. I hate Obama's policies and his heath care overhaul. I hate him spending tons of money on bailouts. I hate that he bashes Wall Street and got more in donations than any other President in the last 20 years. I hate that he is driving businesses overseas with ridiculous taxes and regulations. I hate that he is putting a block on drilling for oil and natural gas in our own land. I hate that he blames the entire ills of the world on republicans. I also hate that he uses "I" more than any other president.

However, I don't hate the man.

 

Try saying that for yourself about GW Bush.

Originally Posted by b50m:

You're are right jimi. I hate Obama's policies and his heath care overhaul. I hate him spending tons of money on bailouts. I hate that he bashes Wall Street and got more in donations than any other President in the last 20 years. I hate that he is driving businesses overseas with ridiculous taxes and regulations. I hate that he is putting a block on drilling for oil and natural gas in our own land. I hate that he blames the entire ills of the world on republicans. I also hate that he uses "I" more than any other president.

However, I don't hate the man.

 

Try saying that for yourself about GW Bush.



BushIIe had 8 years to address the health care crisis in America, and chose to do nothing BUT add hundreds of billions to Americas debt with an unfunded expansion of Medicare intended only to guarantee his reelection in Florida.  

The OBama Stimulus was almost 50% in income tax cuts of the $780billion cost. 

OBama got the most in donations cause he raised $800million in 2008, and will raise over $1`billion in 2012. 

Businesses are going overseas cause thats where the markets are.  Chinese will purchase millions more cars this year than America.  Chinese will purchase much more industrial equipment that AMerica this year.  The Chinese have ordered hundreds of airliners from Boeing, such that all of the production for major parts of the aircraft will be done in China.  Corps want to make money, and its easier overseas.

The US has plenty of oil, so much that we have been exporting about 300,000 gallons of gasoline per month lately.  EXXON made perhaps their largest oil discovery ever in the Gulf, and had a lease to drill but didnt bother, and allowed the lease to lapse, so now they are suing to keep the lease even though federal law says the lease must be rebid.  Its called market manipulation.

 

The idiot Repubes think that something is going to change if their guy is put in office in 2012.  Nothing will change.  The politicians will continue to win and the people will continue to lose and complain about losing and vow to elect their guy in the next election. 

 

http://online.wsj.com/article/...514762275032794.html

Seems the idiot dimocRATS thought the same thing about Obama.

 

That WSJ article link you used gives a different view of those leases.....................

 

The oil industry, led vocally by Exxon, has said that developing oil fields in the deepest reaches of the Gulf takes time to do safely. And by threatening to take away a massive discovery, the industry says that the government is sending the message that oil companies need to be in a rush to produce.

The possibility that Exxon could lose this oil will likely send shock waves through the industry. "This is unprecedented," said Amy Myers Jaffe, associate director of the Energy Program at Rice University in Houston. "The question is: Do our offs**** rules allow for flexibility? You don't want to let companies sit on a discovery…We definitely don't want to send the industry a message that you need to be in a rush or we'll take the oil away from you."

Exxon's lawsuit said the government has granted "thousands" of extensions over time. It said the government's denial of its extension relied on legal interpretations that it "had never before applied and had never before articulated." Statoil asserted in its lawsuit that no request for an extension for a deep-water development "had ever previously been denied." The Interior Department couldn't comment on this.

EXXON had years to start drilling, and did nothing.  How many years do they get to develop a find while the US is in a panic to get more oil??

 

Put the oil on the market, and the Chinese will buy the lease and hire the Swedes to do the drilling.  The Swedes know how to build a blowoff preventer that functions below 5000 feet, while EXXON and Haliburton do not. 

I wouldn't think the party of "drill, baby, drill" would DEFEND an oil company for sitting on a lease and NOT drilling. The real reason oil companies sit on leases is because it is expensive to drill, but their stock prices go up simply due to the fact that theyown the lease. Why spend money drilling when they can make money by just sitting back and doing nothing?

Originally Posted by Mr.Dittohead:

I take someone that eats a few too many chicken wings over a guy THAT ABUSED OXY UNTIL HE LOST HIS HEARING!!!! 

The indication of damage to the central nervous system is irrefutable, but fee free to refudiate.  

Once and addict, always an addict. 

Ditzy.

 

Then, I assume you are quite nervous over someone who was addicted (still is?) to cocaine, while admitting an attraction to heroin, and has access to nuclear weapons. 

Originally Posted by Mr.Dittohead:

EXXON had years to start drilling, and did nothing.  How many years do they get to develop a find while the US is in a panic to get more oil??

 

Put the oil on the market, and the Chinese will buy the lease and hire the Swedes to do the drilling.  The Swedes know how to build a blowoff preventer that functions below 5000 feet, while EXXON and Haliburton do not. 

Your own article said deep water take times and precautions. Given the BP disaster, I'm sure many would be gun shy. I could not find anything about a Swedish blowoff preventer, maybe you can link to it. First you want them to drill on every lease, even those they are useless, then complain about wasting money drilling. The article said they asked for an extension and it was tuned down. If you want to make them out to be the big bad guy, go for it. If the Chinese buys the lease, do you think that would be a good thing?

Originally Posted by O No!:

I wouldn't think the party of "drill, baby, drill" would DEFEND an oil company for sitting on a lease and NOT drilling. The real reason oil companies sit on leases is because it is expensive to drill, but their stock prices go up simply due to the fact that theyown the lease. Why spend money drilling when they can make money by just sitting back and doing nothing?

They waste money if the leased area has no oil. Then you would be complaining about that. They have to lease the land BEFORE they can even see if it has the possibility of oil or natural gas.  Like buying a locked box when you don't know what's in it. Once they lease one, it takes forever to give it back if it's unusable and then there is the hurdles to jump through again to get another one. Now you are mad becuase they wanted to go slow and make sure they could access it in deep water. The leases are usually extended automatically.  This was a way to take it back when it was found to be profitable.  But of course, that would assume the government is stealing land from the company so it can keep the oil from being drilled.

We'll see if anyone drills for it.

Originally Posted by interventor1212:
Originally Posted by Mr.Dittohead:
Originally Posted by b50m:

You're are right jimi. I hate Obama's policies and his heath care overhaul. I hate him spending tons of money on bailouts. I hate that he bashes Wall Street and got more in donations than any other President in the last 20 years. I hate that he is driving businesses overseas with ridiculous taxes and regulations. I hate that he is putting a block on drilling for oil and natural gas in our own land. I hate that he blames the entire ills of the world on republicans. I also hate that he uses "I" more than any other president.

However, I don't hate the man.

 

Try saying that for yourself about GW Bush.



BushIIe had 8 years to address the health care crisis in America, and chose to do nothing BUT add hundreds of billions to Americas debt with an unfunded expansion of Medicare intended only to guarantee his reelection in Florida.  

The OBama Stimulus was almost 50% in income tax cuts of the $780billion cost. 

OBama got the most in donations cause he raised $800million in 2008, and will raise over $1`billion in 2012. 

Businesses are going overseas cause thats where the markets are.  Chinese will purchase millions more cars this year than America.  Chinese will purchase much more industrial equipment that AMerica this year.  The Chinese have ordered hundreds of airliners from Boeing, such that all of the production for major parts of the aircraft will be done in China.  Corps want to make money, and its easier overseas.

The US has plenty of oil, so much that we have been exporting about 300,000 gallons of gasoline per month lately.  EXXON made perhaps their largest oil discovery ever in the Gulf, and had a lease to drill but didnt bother, and allowed the lease to lapse, so now they are suing to keep the lease even though federal law says the lease must be rebid.  Its called market manipulation.

 

The idiot Repubes think that something is going to change if their guy is put in office in 2012.  Nothing will change.  The politicians will continue to win and the people will continue to lose and complain about losing and vow to elect their guy in the next election. 

 

http://online.wsj.com/article/...514762275032794.html

 

As 75 percent stated they were satisfied with their health insurance, what crisis! 

Oil exploitation takes years as hardware, scarce, must be applied against the most promising fields first.  Thanks to Obama, that hardware is deploying to Brazil and west Africa.  Yes, we import more oil than we need. Our refineries are the best in the world.  They can turn Venezuelan "petrified dinosaur dung" to use the industry slang into a good product. Results, we import a cheap natural resource and selling a value added product overseas and internally -- employing many people.  Why are you so against employing Americans?

EXXON bid on and got the lease that allowed them to do exploratory well drilling, which is how they discovered the huge oil deposit.  This type of drilling is done after much research not just on a whim.  The original lease was for 10 years. 

How long does EXXON get to develop a find that could alter US oil production needs for the next decade? 

Originally Posted by Bestworking:

 Isn't alcohol considered a "drug" by some?

*******************

 

Yes, and it is the most widely used and abused of all drugs and costs society multiplied billions of dollars in accident costs, excess deaths and broken homes.  But it IS legal and those who are so weak-willed and shallow as to demand it as a "social lubricant" are contributing to the destruction wrought by alcohol.

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